Opinion

Update on the emerging Financing for Development (FFD) agenda and processes, and Canadian perspectives surrounding the [...]

Recently updated data shows Canada exceeded its stated commitment to Muskoka and MNCH. [...]

Highlights from ongoing research presented at the 3rd International Open Data Conference May 28-29, 2015 in Ottawa. We are leveraging social big data generated by 467 official social feeds of the Gov of Canada, which span all Canadian overseas missions; over 3 million interactions (from Apr 2014 - [...]

Looking at the size of aid, Canada’s rank as donor continues to fall. Is it all bad [...]

The aim of this brief is to summarize key messages from a forthcoming research paper, “Paying for Impact: Results-based Approaches in Development Finance, Situating Canadian Efforts in a Global Context”. This paper is a primer on results-based approaches in development finance. It fills a gap [...]

The forthcoming edition of the SAIS Review published by Johns Hopkins University Press includes an article titled “Fast Data, Slow Policy: Making the Most of Disruptive Innovation in International [...]

Canada has committed an additional $3.5 billion to maternal and newborn child health (MNCH), from 2015 to 2020. This is an amount higher than what non-governmental organizations were calling for. The present commitment made in 2010 at the Muskoka G8 summit expires in 2015. This new announcement [...]

As Canada’s maternal, newborn and child health summit — the first of its kind — kicks off today, the Conservative government might very well pat itself on the [...]

This is a preliminary post, while we update our time-series data. All figures are in Canadian dollars and on a Canadian fiscal year basis, and therefore may have slight differences compared to OECD-DAC figures (in US$ and calendar year basis). All data come directly from Canada’s Department of [...]

Despite Canadians’ self-image as a generous international leader, our global influence in the fight against poverty is dwindling. Canada is struggling to figure out what we want our ever-scarce aid dollars to achieve at a time when new players are rising and the geography of poverty is changing [...]